come see my lair with its hundreds of skulls

its actually an opera if it has a v shaped snout with visible bottom teeth and a musical if it has a u shaped snout and an overbite. and an Oratorio is a weird effeminate gharial with a self esteem problem

heres the thing. i enjoy well done heavy subject matter, you can look at my track record of interests as evidence for that, but i do think writers who wont shut up about how complicated and controversial they are for including ~dark themes~ in their writing need to a christmas carol style be forced to sit down and watch all 4 seasons of 13 reasons why to see what happens if you try to incorporate a bunch of heavy stuff in your work with 0 research or regard for people affected

slight clarification: people in the tags are saying "yea there needs to be levity between heavy moments for a story to be effective", which is also very true! but not what this post is about. this post is about how if you write about abuse and murder and oppression but you dont actually know what youre talking about or have a purpose for including it beside shock value and proving how mature you are your work will read like it was written by a twelve year old

asking 'what are we' to a ghost

I can't find @derring-do's seminal edit of that "I'm tired of hearing people say we need X in media and then describe something that definitely already happened in ..." but that's me looking at what I presume are Hadestown fans' posts about needing a lesbian Orpheus

i'm almost done with the second draft of my novel and i've gotten back to the very first parts i ever wrote, where i spelled one of the main characters' name wrong half the time, thought there was an "a" in "breeches" and (above all) was much worse at writing than i am now

i finished (yay) and immediately started feeling weird and sick and cold and exhausted. why did the evil book drain my life force

watching youtube in the 18th century: goddddddd could you skip through the 20 minutes of thanks for your ~most gracious patron her grace the duchess of D--shire, a new maecenas & the loveliest of ladies~ and get to your handel tier listing